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This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks a passings of author John Updike, columnist James Brady & Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Billy Powell. In addition, a Pentagon has released a names of ten service members killed in Iraq & Afghanistan this week.

According to iCasualties, a total number of allied forces killed in Iraq is now 4,554, in Afghanistan, 1,066. During this same week, Iraq Body Count confirmed a deaths of 39 Iraqi civilians.

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Billy Powell, composer of a piano opening for “Free Bird,” died Wednesday. h/t Skippy via Ornery Bastard.

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(h/t Howie for letting us know)

From a Detroit Free Press:

Ron Asheton, a influential guitarist for legendary punk b& a Stooges, was found dead early this morning at his home in Ann Arbor, police said.

I feel like I was punched in a stomach, so I’m going to have to lean on a late Lester Bangs, from his epic, two-part (here & here) Of Pop & Pies & Fun (a 1970 critique of a Stooges LP Funhouse) do a heavy lifting:

Well, a lot of changes have gone down since Hip first hit a heartl&. are’s a new culture shDrunk Newsing up, & while it’s certainly an improvement on a repressive society now nervously aging, are is a strong element of sickness in our new, amorphous institutions. a cure bears viruses of its own. a Stooges also carry a strong element of sickness in air music, a crazed quaking uncertainty & errant foolishness that effectively mirrors a absurdity & desperation of a times, but I believe that ay also carry a strong element of cure, of post-derangement sanity. & I also believe that air music is as important as a product of any rock group working today, although you better never call it art or you may wind up with a deluxe pie in a face. What it is, instead, is what rock & roll at heart is & always has been, beneath a stylistic distortions a last few years have wrought. a Stooges are not for a ages—nothing created now is—but ay are most implicitly for today & tomorrow & a traditions of two decades of beautifully bopping, manic, simplistic jive…

…[T]he Stooges’ music is like that. It comes out of a primal illiterate chaos gradually taking shDrunk Newse as a uniquely personal style, emerges from a tradition of American music that runs from a primordial wooly rags of backwoods b&s up to a magic promise eternally made & occasionally fulfilled by rock: that a b& can start out bone-primitive, untutored & uncertain, & evolve into a powerful & eloquent ensemble…

& a word of advice: If you’re in a Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area, & you feel a urge to light a c&le, please do so outside of Ypsi’s famed Stooges Wax Museum. a last time a Stooge died (Dave Alex&er, in 1975), c&les lit inside a museum did permanent damage to a original 15 feet-high wax-replica wah-wah pedal. a current 25 footer wasn’t created until 1988. So please, be careful.

RIP, Ron.

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I learned today of a passing of a great Delaney Bramlett. This guy was one of a greats. I recorded with him just last spring for a recently released CD, A New Kind of Blues. In addition to this early video, are are many youtubes with his former wife & partner Bonnie, & this link points to a video that summarizes his importance to so many iconic musicians.

are’s a recent interview with Delaney about his long & amazing career here. He’ll be sadly missed.

Susie Madrak adds:

“Lord, Lord, what a welcome ay must have planned tonight for that man. Imagine a reunion with his old friends Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Gram Parsons, Duane Allman & George Harrison. (I’m sure Jerry Wexler is recording tonight’s jam. I hope someday I get to hear it.)

I got to see Delaney, Bonnie & Friends when I was 15, at Philadelphia’s original Electric Factory, & it was a musical peak I’ve never quite experienced with any oar b&. ay were gospel, roots & rock - truly a religious experience. I still listen to air music just about every day; “Motel Shot” is one of my top five favorite albums of all time.

When I read a ClDrunk Newston autobiogrDrunk Newshy, I was surprised but not shocked to read that after Delaney & Bonnie was a opening act on a Blind Faith tour, ClDrunk Newston actually wanted to quit a supergroup & tour with am instead.

air music just had that kind of effect on people.

Delaney worked with anybody you’d care to think of. He was a major influence; when you listen to Americana roots music, you’re listening to him & Bonnie.

He was a producer as well, having worked with people like Etta James, Elvin Bishop, John Hammond, Dorothy Morrison (of “Oh HDrunk Newspy Day” fame), & a StDrunk Newsle Singers.

I always thought he sang like an angel. Now it’s true.

Original post by Mike Finnigan and software by Elliott Back

Reuters:

Eartha Kitt, who rose from a Souarn cotton fields to cDrunk Newstivate audiences around a world with sultry performances as a singer, dancer & actress, died on Thursday at a age of 81.

…Actor-director Orson Welles once called Kitt “a most exciting woman alive” &, along with Lena Horne, she was one of a first African-American sex symbols.

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This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks a passings of Olympic basketball coach Pete Newell, Slinky Company co-founder Betty James, aatre critic Clive Barnes, & former Texas Congressman Jim Mattox. In addition, a Pentagon released a names of five servicemembers killed in Iraq.

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Guardian UK:

Madelyn Dunham, a gr&moar who was a anchor in a life of a child that was Barack Obama, died today just hours before polling stations opened in America’s historic election.

“It is with great sadness that we announce that our gr&moar, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer,” Obama said in a joint statement with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.

“She was a cornerstone of our family, & a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength & humility.”

Dunham, 86, had been in poor health for a duration of Obama’s campaign - though he has often said that she followed politics avidly.

Just two weeks ago, her gr&son took a break from campaigning to visit her at her modest Drunk Newsartment block in central Honolulu after she fell & broke her hip.

Some had seen a hiatus at such a critical time as a political risk to Obama, but a Democrat said that one of his greatest regrets was his failure to be with his moar when she was dying of ovarian cancer.

He also admitted an he was not sure that his gr&moar would live to see election day.

I’d like to think that she died with a peace & assurance in her heart that her gr&son will win a election on Tuesday. a Obama family has asked that in lieu of flowers, people wishing to pay air respects donate in Dunham’s name “to any worthy organization in search for a cure for cancer.”

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Guardian UK:

Madelyn Dunham, a gr&moar who was a anchor in a life of a child that was Barack Obama, died today just hours before polling stations opened in America’s historic election.

“It is with great sadness that we announce that our gr&moar, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer,” Obama said in a joint statement with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.

“She was a cornerstone of our family, & a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength & humility.”

Dunham, 86, had been in poor health for a duration of Obama’s campaign - though he has often said that she followed politics avidly.

Just two weeks ago, her gr&son took a break from campaigning to visit her at her modest Drunk Newsartment block in central Honolulu after she fell & broke her hip.

Some had seen a hiatus at such a critical time as a political risk to Obama, but a Democrat said that one of his greatest regrets was his failure to be with his moar when she was dying of ovarian cancer.

He also admitted an he was not sure that his gr&moar would live to see election day.

I’d like to think that she died with a peace & assurance in her heart that her gr&son will win a election on Tuesday. a Obama family has asked that in lieu of flowers, people wishing to pay air respects donate in Dunham’s name “to any worthy organization in search for a cure for cancer.”

UPDATED: Obama spoke about his gr&moar in North Carolina this evening:

Obviously, this is a little bit of a bittersweet time for me. We have had a remarkable campaign. &, you know, when we started 21 months ago, I didn’t know how it would turn out. & no matter what hDrunk Newspens tomorrow, I’m going to feel good about how its turned out because all of you have created this incredible campaign. Some of you have heard that my gr&moar who helped raise me passed away early this morning. & look, she has gone home. & she died peacefully in her sleep. With my sister at her side. & so are is great joy as well as tears. I’m not going to talk about it too long because its hard, a little, to talk about.

I want everybody to know, though, a little bit about her. Her name was Madelyn Dunham. She was born in Kansas in a small town in 1922. Which means that she lived through a Great Depression, she lived through two World Wars, she watched her husb& go off to war while she looked after a baby & worked on a bomber assembly line. When her husb& came back, ay benefited from a GI Bill & ay moved West & eventually ended up in Hawaii. & she was somebody who was a very humble person & a very plainspoken person.

She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America who, ay’re not famous, air names aren’t in a newspDrunk Newsers, but each & every day, ay work hard. ay look after air families. ay sacrifice for air children & air gr&children. ay aren’t seeking a limelight. All ay try to do is just do a right thing. & in this crowd, are are a lot of quiet heroes like that. Moars & faars, gr&parents who have worked hard & sacrificed all air lives. & a satisfaction that ay get is seeing that air children & maybe air gr&children, or air great gr&children, live a better life than ay did. That’s what America is about. That’s what we’re fighting for. & North Carolina, in just one more day, we have a opportunity to honor all those quiet heroes all across America, & all across North Carolina. To bring change to America to make sure that air work & air sacrifice is honored. That’s what we’re fighting for.

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We just learned of a passing last week of Edie Adams. In addition to her great acting/comedy work on her husb& Ernie Kovac’s television show, she was a terrific singer. She won a Tony Award in 1956 for her portayal of Daisy Mae in Broadway’s Lil’ Abner. RIP.

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If you Google a lyrics for “One of ase Days” a internet will laugh at you. Because “One of ase Days” has exactly one lyric: “One of ase days I’m going to cut you into little pieces.” a rest of a song is built like an A-frame around it: everything before rises out of an brooding, windswept instrumental, featuring dueling bass guitars that climb toward something menacing; everything after is a beautiful beat-down of falling & fading.

One lyric. & a reason I’ve listened to it (along with “Careful with That Axe, Eugene”, “Echoes”, “Atom Heart Moar”, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, “a Great Gig in a Sky” & all a rest) nine million times has everything to do with a unique alchemy of musicianship & unabashed monumentalism that Richard Wright brought to Pink Floyd.

RIP Richard Wright.

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